“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”

– J.W. von Goethe 

Discovering the unfolding patterns, rhythms, and cycles in our lives give us the inspiration and new direction needed to help answer questions such as “Who am I? Why am I here?” Artistic practice leads to much deeper levels of understanding one’s destiny while ultimately touching the heart.

The threads of our lives form patterns within each of us, likewise between ourselves and the wider circles of our relationships and community. Through the combination of biography and eurythmy, we come closer to realizing our future potential and harmonizing these threads as we develop new capacities for life. Specifically in this course, we will approach life’s many mysteries not only through eurythmy but also through painting, drawing, and clay modeling.

This course is for parents, teachers, and those open to exploring new insights into their lives, both in terms of challenges and gifts. It will also serve participants who have attended previous “Picture Your Life” courses, since each cycle of this course is unique.

Materials fee: $30

Participants may:
a) attend a single course offering;
b) receive a Certificate of Completion as credit toward a full Arscura Biography Training Course in Toronto, Canada;
c) return to future biography courses to enhance their own personal growth and development and to support their communities.

Year 1, 2012: Life Cycles

Introduction to Biography. Looking at our individual development through the seven-year cycles as described by Rudolf Steiner. Life charting, the 21-year chart, mirroring and metamorphosis. Eurythmy and watercolor painting.

Year 2, 2013: Planetary Qualities

Deepening our understanding of our life’s journey. The seven planetary qualities in their relationship to the life cycles. The 31.5- year chart, planetary cycles and sub-cycles. Applying these to our own lives. Eurythmy and clay modelling.

Year 3, 2014: Life Between Lives

Extending our view on life. How can an understanding of reincarnation enrich and support our current life? The journey of reviewing, letting go, and beginning again as we work with our lives in the present in light of karma and reincarnation. Eurythmy and charcoal and pastel drawing.

REGINE KUREK, artist and anthroposophical art therapist, biography counselor and Co-Director of Arscura, School for Living Art in Toronto, Canada, has developed a training for “Art in the Healing and Social Fields.” Regine completed her Biography Counseling training in Arlesheim, Switzerland, and serves currently as a member of the National Council of the Anthroposophical Society of Canada.

LINDA LARSON, eurythmist, facilitates eurythmy workshops and seminars in various settings. She has taught in Waldorf schools, Camphill communities, Branch groups, and is the therapeutic eurythmist at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City. A member of the National Board of the Eurythmy Association of North America, Linda received her Eurythmy Diplomas at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, the London School of Therapeutic Eurythmy, England, and is trained in Eurythmy in the Workplace. She holds an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.